Life as Written

This is Thumper. He was born at Target in Anaheim, California seven years ago. In his youth, he enjoyed relaxing days on a shady balcony of a townhome. He wasn’t disturbed by much other than the occasional bug and being sprayed down every so often when the balcony was cleaned. As he reached middle age […]

Hi, I’m Mykonos. For thirteen years my former husband Grenoble and I lived with our mom and some periodic visitors, like Grandma and Grandpa Zuber. Then everything changed seven months ago. We moved into a house with our mom and her husband. Grenoble, who I affectionately called Nobler, and I kept to ourselves at first. […]

Mykonos wandered from one side of the backyard to the other, lingering here and there to inspect a plant and eat some grass. She reveled at her new-found freedom to explore what the world had to offer. For the first time she had a vast grassland of mystery and adventure to investigate. She discovered a […]

At 7:00 last night Grenoble wheezed his last breath as I stroked his bony spine and soothed him with gentle words. After suffering from kidney disease, severe arthritis, and a litany of other health problems for the past sixteen months, his beaten body could take no more. Life was drained from the shell of his […]

Heather Harshman is a blogger and author of a mystery novel, multiple Chicken Soup for the Soul stories, and magazine articles. As a civil litigator turned law school professor, she has presented at many conferences.

She recently started her own estate planning law firm while submitting her novel for publication and having her second child, Isabella, with husband Dale. They enjoy international travel, snowboarding, road and mountain biking, and trying unique flavors of Lay's chips when they venture to South America and Asia.